The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-04-14

little ones gathered together. what seen,
of hunger, and wretchedness, and rags
and sin, and trouble, and darkness
IL we could see those little feet OF
the broad road to death, which. through
Christian charity, ought TO be press
ing the narrow path Of life; II W,
could hear those voices in blasphemv
which ought to he singing the praise oil
God; il we could Sc, those little hearts
which at that age ought not to b. soiled
with one unClean thought. becoming the
sewers for every abrminatIon; II we
could see these suffering little ones sacri
need on the altar OF every iniq Iit1us pas
sion, and baptiz' wI'h fire from the lava
OF the pit, we would recoil, crying out:
"Avaunt, thou dream Of holl,"
They are not always going "a be chill.
dren. They are coming up II bs the mc1
and women Of this country That spark
Of iniQuity that might now b, put uut
with ono drop OF the wntS. Of lie VIII be.
come III, Connlgration Of every gre m
thing that God ever planted in the soul.
That which ought to have been temple
Of the Holy Ghost Will become a SCARE I
and blistered ruin-cvery figat qucnchcl
and every altar in tn, dust. That petty
thief, who slips into your stores aud
takes a yard Of your Cloh from your
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the forest, or the burglar ut milni ght,
picking the lock of your monPy-safs AMI
blowing up your store to hide the villainy.
A great army with staggering step. and
| bloodshot eye and drunken boot, they are
coming ou-gatheriuE recruits from every
| grpg- shop and den OF infHmy in the land.
TO take the ballot-b box and hurrah at the
elections.
The hard-knuckled fist Of rufiansm win
! have more power than tho Gcntle hand of
intelligence and sobricty. NAG, bioatcd,
and with the signature Of SIN burned in
| from the top OF the forehead 10 the bottom
of the chin, will Look honest mel out of
| counteuance. Nora! curpses, which ought
70 be buriei huudfef feet deep to keep
! them from polsoniny the air, Will rot IN
! the face 81 the sun n nD1Iday Industry.
in her plain froek, will b. unap-
preciatcd, while thousands of men
will wander around IN idIancss. with their
hands on their hips saying: The world
owes us living" q. what tremau lous
power shefe is in in!qu!ty when unedu-
Gated, and unrestrainei, and uublauC-lcd
It goes on concentrating, and deepening
aad widening, and gathering momentum.
until il swings ahead with a very triumph
Of desOlaton, drowning Ike surges,
scorchtHg Ike flames, crushing like rocks
What are you going e do with this
abandoned population OF the streets.
| " Ill you gather them in your churcbest
1t Is not the will of your Heavenly Father
| that one Ct these little ones should perish.
! '. you have ten respectable Chfidreu in
your class, gather in ten that are not re-
spectacle. II in your Bible class there
be twenty young men who have
! come from Christian homes and Gle.
gait surroundings, let those twenty Young
/ men go out and gather in twenty more of
! the young men OF the city who are lost to
God and lost 10 society This outside pop
! ulati0n, unless educated ami restrained.
| will work error in u yes that arc - come.
| Years ago, at New O,leans. when the
| cholera was raging fearfuilY, y steam boat
! put out just before nightfah, crowded
! with passengers who were trying . es-
cape from the pestiRnca. After the boat
! had been ont little while the cngit Ger
fell with the cholera. The captain, in cen
/ sternation. went down among tn passed
| gers and asiei:
is there any one here who knows any
! thing about engiueerinet''
| A swarthy man replied: Al am an en-.
! gireer."
We'll" said the captain, ~ would b.
! very glad IL o2 would take charge Of this
boat
The man went to the engine The
steamer moved more rapidly, until after
| awhile, the captain and some passengers
were alarmed and they went to see what
| was the matter, and they found that this
| was maniac engineer, and that he was
! seated on the safety valve; and as thcy
! came to him he said:
Il am commissioned Of Satan to drive
| this steamer to hell"
| And he fiourishod his pistol, and would
not come down. But after awhile, through
some stratagem he was brought from his
position, and the lives of the passengers
were saved.
Oh, my friends, that steamer hal no
such peril as our institutions are threat
cned with, If the ignorant and unre-
strained children Of this land shall come
up in their ignorance and their or ime to
engineer our civil and religious in
situations, and drive them on the
rocks. Educate this abandoned population
or they will overthrow the institutions of
this land. Gather them into your SAB
| bath-schoo!s. | congratulate you that
many have been gathered. Go forth,
| teachers, in the name Of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and on the coming Sabbaths NAV
there be found gathered scores ami hun.
drcds Of these Wanderers, and instead of
eighteen hundred in the Sabbat h-school
we shall see thrco thousand or four thous-
sand, and the grace of God win como
down upon them and the II ,ly Spirit VIII
bring them all into the truth.
Another characteristic of a I've church
| is one with appropriate architecture II
the far West and amid destitute p1Dula.
ttons a log church is very approp.iste-
the people Nyils in log houses. Bat in
communities where people live il com
Portable abodes, church Uucom mod sDu5
or lacking in beauty is moral nuisance
Because Christ was bo.n in a lnapgrr is no
reason why we should worship MIN III a
barn.
Let the caurrAcs Of Jesus Chris. be not
only comfortable, but ornate. Years ago
we resolved TO have comfortable church
We resolved that il should b = uluphithcar
riCal in shape. The prominent architects
of the coVatry, after figuring on the mat
ter good while, said that such "a church
would not b. Churchy. ana they would
have nothing TO do with the cu'erp 'lse
But after awhile we found an architect
willing to risk his reputation. H put uD
! for us the first tabernacle in amphtheat-
| rical style. We liked il. All who came
| liked it, This building fo4owel in the
| same style. We believe it is appropriate
| and adapted.
| An angular church viii have a angular
| theology. The Church of Jesus Christ
ought TO be great family circle, the pull
! pit only the fireplace around which they
| are gathered in sweet and dom este com
! munlon. But when our first tabernacle
| went up y the Caricutur1 and the srOfY